[madvlad]

Anybody remember the cold fusion breakthrough
at Utah St or Univ of Utah back in the early
90s?

Not reproducible and later found to be
fraudulant.

You mean that Einstein and Oppenheimer
weren't leaders in their respective fields?

Mad Vlad

[reagandemocrat]

Oh No! Boris Badinoff's upsidazium??!

[OBAFGKM]

Anybody remember the cold fusion breakthrough at Utah St or Univ of Utah back in the early 90s?

Not reproducible and later found to be fraudulant.

Commonly restated, this is simply not true. Pons and Fleischmann work was solidly grounded in theory, and they have published in several respectable journals. "Cold fusion" research continues in a number of venues today, and numerous respectable researchers report having confirmed its existence.

[LS]

Where have you been? There have been several subsequent studies of "cold fusion," and they constantly find energy---not enough yet to do anything, but do a search, and I think you'll find that many scientists are taking a VERY serious look at this again.

[Andrew Wiggin]

"You mean that Einstein and Oppenheimer
weren't leaders in their respective fields? "

Einstein wasn't, at least in 1905 when he published his papers on Special Relativity, photosynthesis, and one other who's topic I forget. He was a Swiss patent clerk, he couldn't find anyone else willing to hire him.

PS It's interesting to note that while he did eventually win a Nobel Prize for one of these papers, it wasn't the one on Relativity but rather the one on photosynthesis.